‘Leaky’ Canada-U.S. border needs a reopening plan urgently, tourism experts plead

Monthly extensions of Canada-U.S. border restrictions, paired with continued promises of updates to border and travel regulations “in the coming weeks,” have left travel and tourism destinations with questions about when international visitors will be welcome.

For Niagara Falls, which normally sees about 14 million visitors a year, almost 30 per cent are from the U.S., making up about 50 per cent of revenue.

“More than 152 million people live within a one day or less drive of Niagara Falls, that’s our market,” Janice Thomson, President & CEO of Niagara Falls Tourism told Yahoo Canada. “So we’ve been able to draw on that large market, traditionally, but now that the American and the international travel has been cut off completely, we’re relying entirely on our domestic visitors.”

“[The American visitors] tend to spend more money, they stay longer in the destination and so that makes them extremely important to

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